> Just checked. It is 122. A Stronglight 93 ring > lines up perfectly with the Nervar chainring bolts. > I have two other Nervars like this and they are > both 122. So Nervar was changing to the 122 > Stronglight circle at about the same time Stronglight > was introducing the mod 106 with the Campy 144 > circle, while Campy was abandoning 144 in favor of > the smaller C-Record circle. Seems that French > marketing was always one or two steps behind.
I've shopped there; I've toured there by bicycle, train and car; I've listened to Plastic Bertrand sing quasi-punk rock in French . So I'm not surprised. Not that French national idiosyncrasies are less valid than any other nation's.
What puzzles me, then, is the 1984 nervar crank that I own which uses the older 128mm BCD. This came on a 1984 Peugeot that was totally French at a time when many other Peugeots brought into the USA at least used English threading.
So that makes me wonder if Nervar - and their customers - used different sizes depending on the target market. Of couse it also begs the question of how I managed to buy a "totally French" Peugeot at a time when they were switching to different standards. Bon soir, Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (which seems to resemble a faux Paris more each day)
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